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For future leaders in financeMSc, LLM, MPhil and PhD
Master Program: MPhil and PhD programme in Finance
Learning purpose
A summary of Duisenberg school of finance's joint initiative with Tinbergen Institute for a PhD programme is provided here. Full information can be found on the website of the Tinbergen Institute: http://www.tinbergen.nl/.
Duisenberg school of finance also sponsors a new MPhil programme in Finance (fully dedicated to research in finance), offered by Tinbergen Institute The MPhil in Finance will initially be a variant of the Tinbergen institute's MPhil in Economics that leads to an NVAO accredited degree. It will share its structure, institutions and regulations, but will have a core and a choice of courses tailored to research in finance.
Target audience
Duisenberg school of finance together with the renowned Tinbergen Institute offers a dedicated two year MPhil programme in Finance, followed by the three year PhD positions in Finance. The MPhil and PhD programme are research oriented and go beyond a regular MSc degree. Students gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of financial economics (asset pricing, microeconomics, information, corporate finance) as well as the methodology (mathematics, statistics, econometrics) needed to be successful in research. The programme stimulates students to engage in critical, innovative thinking, thus lets them develop into independent researchers, ready to shape their further career in either the financial industry or academia.
Duisenberg school of finance will complement the Tinbergen institute's funding for the MPhil/PhD in Finance with scholarships for talented students seeking to take the MPhil, and three-year PhD employment positions for MPhil in Finance graduates.
Programme
In the first year, MPhil in Finance students complete a core that consists of three course sequences:
- Asset Pricing and Financial Markets (20 ECTS)
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
- Portfolio Allocation
- Derivatives
- Asset Pricing
- International Finance - Microeconomics and Corporate Finance (20 ECTS)
- Individual Decision Making
- Game Theory
- Information and Behavioural Economics
- Contract Theory
- Corporate Finance - Methods (20 ECTS)
- Mathematics I+II
- Statistics/Econometrics I+II or Advanced Econometrics I-III
In the second year, students complete 30 ECTS of specialised coursework following their research interests. The programme is completed with the MPhil thesis (30 ECTS), proving the student's ability to produce original academic research. After the MPhil programme, successful students have the opportunity to engage in 3-year PhD positions under individual supervision by an international expert in the field.
In 2009-2010, courses will be offered in a variety of financial fields/disciplines, such as Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Banking and Financial Intermediation, Risk Management and Derivatives, Law and Finance, Market Microstructure, International Finance, Behavioural Finance, Empirical Finance, Financial Econometrics.
In addition, students can take courses from the MPhil in Economics (apart from the MPhil in Economics' current Finance course, however some 30 courses are offered in other fields). Finally, students can write papers for credit in at most two (different) fields of their choice.
Entry Requirements
Admission requirements and procedures for the MPhil in Finance are identical to those for the MPhil in Economics and can be found on the TI site, http://www.tinbergen.nl/.
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